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Founded in 1918, GuideStone is a leading financial services provider of retirement, investment, executive benefit services, life and health plans and property and casualty insurance coverage to Southern Baptist and evangelical churches, ministries and related organizations. Based in Dallas, Texas, and operating as a church benefits board, GuideStone serves more than 250,000 participants and 50,000 organizations worldwide. As of December 31, 2020, GuideStone has $19.3 billion assets under management.
GuideStone Capital Management® serves as the investment adviser to GuideStone Funds®, the nation's largest* faith-based mutual fund family with $16.3 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2020.
GuideStone Funds are actively managed and utilize a manager-of-managers approach to provide access to multiple, proven investment management firms within a single mutual fund. By combining investment strategies from these various firms — each exhibiting differentiated styles and approaches — and optimizing them in alignment with intentional risk exposures, GuideStone Funds offers the potential for enhanced diversification and expanded sources of return relative to single-manager mutual funds.
Based in Dallas, Texas, GuideStone Funds and GuideStone Capital Management are controlled affiliates of GuideStone. GuideStone Funds shares are distributed by Foreside Funds Distributors LLC, not an advisor affiliate.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has derailed many plans, financial planning should not be something set on the back burner, especially for pastors and other church leaders.
COVID-19 has racked the nation, and Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has been among the hardest hit. Many churches have faced dwindling attendance and giving as members suffer from the pandemic’s effects on their health and livelihood.
GuideStone® has released its most popular annual publication, the 2021 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2020 Returns prepared by Richard Hammar, available now for GuideStone participants at GuideStone.org/TaxGuide.
With uncertainty, and with it market volatility, on the horizon for 2021, now is a great time for retirement plan participants to consider their risk tolerance and consider their retirement asset allocation.
Legislation signed late December 27 by President Donald Trump includes provisions that could assist churches and ministry organizations, including additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as well as direct payments to some taxpayers.
While 2020 has been unprecedented on so many levels, GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins said the year has held its share of blessings for the ministry and its participants.
GuideStone Capital Management, LLC® was recognized today by Pensions & Investments as one of the 2020 Best Places to Work in Money Management.
GuideStone® President O.S. Hawkins asked trustees to begin the process of identifying his successor in September.
Gifts to Mission:Dignity® will be matched for those giving during the annual #GivingTuesday emphasis on December 1.
How a Partnership with the South Carolina Baptist Convention Provides Additional Help
Leaders of the various Southern Baptist Asian American organizations met virtually with GuideStone® leaders Thursday (October 8) for a time of conversation and fellowship.
While acknowledging no minister of the gospel ever truly retires from service to the Lord, every pastor should consider how to prepare for his vocational retirement and the ministry God may have in his latter years.
At the request of GuideStone® President O.S. Hawkins, trustees have appointed a search committee to begin considering a new president for the organization.
The book, which has sold well more than a quarter of a million copies, was reintroduced this summer in Spanish.
Kasan Boyd is no stranger to GuideStone’s employees and leadership. A 14-year veteran of GuideStone®, Boyd knows the organization’s needs thoroughly.
As churches begin reopening across the country, they are working to find the best ways to address a new challenge: how to maintain social distance while bringing back programming that is helpful for members, families and the community.
As an organization, GuideStone® anchors to the Bible, God’s infallible Word, and turns to it for guidance.
Dr. Chu Soh, a long-time health care industry executive and retired Air Force officer, has joined GuideStone® as chief insurance officer.
President Donald J. Trump signed a bill Friday, June 5, that will offer small businesses — including churches and ministries — that received Paycheck Protection Program loan money additional flexibility.
While the vast majority of churches quickly closed their doors through March, April and early May, the startup for churches may be a bit slower.
The guiding principles placed GuideStone® on a strong footing to weather the current crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mission:Dignity® Sunday, set each year by the Southern Baptist Convention for the fourth Sunday in June, is moving for 2020 only to the last Sunday in August due to lingering effects of COVID-19.
President Trump signed legislation that provides additional funding for the popular Paycheck Protection Program.
With the COVID-19 crisis impacting the global economy, and with it the budgets of churches and ministries, GuideStone® will host a webcast on Tuesday, April 21, to discuss the implications for churches.
Participants in GuideStone’s U.S.-based Highmark BCBS health plans will be able to receive physician-ordered, in-network, inpatient hospital care for COVID-19 treatment at no cost for claims incurred through May 31, 2020.
GuideStone® is offering a one-time opportunity for both Group Plans and Personal Plans to step down to a lower-cost health care plan for the remainder of 2020.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans will be available to churches and ministries.
Each day brings news of the market up one minute and down the next; record losses one day and record gains the next.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Phase III Stimulus Package (also referred to as the CARES Act) signed into law today by President Trump will provide potential relief for churches and pastors
Telemedicine has proven to be an effective way to seek medical attention during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
GuideStone Financial Resources® continues to monitor the developments around the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.
Worldwide markets have remained highly volatile in March as the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has continued its spread through Asia, Europe and the United States.
For the first time in the 175-year history of the Southern Baptist Convention, one of its historic boards will have an African-American woman trustee chair.
While the market moves and minute-by-minute headlines on cable news and social media can be alarming.
GuideStone® has released its most popular annual publication, the 2020 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2019 Returns
Markets continued their winning ways last week, closing at or near record highs.
The deal moves to the Senate, where there is cautious optimism it will pass and then be forwarded to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Former Annuity Board, now GuideStone Financial Resources, President Dr. Darold H. Morgan passed away December 11. He was 95.
GuideStone Capital Management® was recognized as a winner in the 2019 Best Places to Work in Money Management awards announced by Pensions & Investments today.
January 2020 marks the second full year GuideStone® participants can select Secure Health® 3000 as their health plan.
Have you tried purchasing a gift for someone who has less than enough to make ends meet and yet insists on the gift going to someone more worthy?
As many churches enter budget season, they are seeking ways to stretch limited budget dollars to cover a myriad of good and God-honoring goals, including Cooperative Program giving and outreach in their local community.
GuideStone Financial Resources® trustees met in regular session July 29–30 to hear reports from the GuideStone® executive leadership team and staff about the ministry’s key lines of business.
We want to update you on recent legal and regulatory activity related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), church plans and group health plans.
Markets continued their record-setting ways, setting new, all-time highs again in June. Stocks are generally buoyed by strong economic reports in relation to employment, wages and consumer sentiment.
Bethel Baptist Church in Yorktown, Virginia, has long been missions-oriented, but a trip to the 2017 SBC Annual Meeting in Phoenix put Mission:Dignity® on their radar.
Litigation challenging the constitutionality of the minister’s housing allowance has formally ended after the Freedom From Religion Foundation chose not to appeal a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rick and Betty Hall, who live in a modest mobile home in central Alabama, have a multitude of stories about the small churches they served throughout the eastern part of the state over the course of three decades.
A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that the minister’s housing allowance is constitutional under two landmark legal precedents, reversing a lower court’s ruling that declared the minister’s cash housing allowance unconstitutional because it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The Code book series by GuideStone® President O.S. Hawkins has officially sold more than one million copies since the publication of The Joshua Code: 52 Scripture Verses Every Believer Should Know in 2012 and will soon pass 1.5 million copies sold.
Protecting children, youth and other vulnerable populations — as well as responding well to reports from victims of abuse in churches and ministry organizations — will be topics covered during a free upcoming webcast sponsored by GuideStone®.
GuideStone Funds® was awarded the Lipper Fund Award from Refinitiv — formerly presented by Thomson Reuters — as the Best Overall Small Fund Family for 2019 on Thursday, March 7.
After marking the GuideStone Financial Resources® centennial anniversary in 2018 and executing a successful move to new leased office space, the ministry continues forward, focusing on the harvest the Lord has provided in 2019 and beyond, GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins told trustees.
GuideStone® has released its most popular annual publication, the 2019 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2018 Returns
Financial markets continued to retreat in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise the Fed Funds rate by 0.25 percent, to a range of 2.25 and 2.5 percent.
GuideStone Chief Strategic Investment Officer David S. Spika cautions retirement investors to focus on their long-term investment objectives and not allow dramatic headlines to prompt investors to make impulsive decisions.
In January, at the start of GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention’s centennial anniversary, O.S. Hawkins declared 2018 the Year of New Beginnings.
#GivingTuesday gifts to Mission:Dignity®, the GuideStone® ministry for retired Southern Baptist ministers and their widows near the poverty line, will be effectively doubled thanks to generous donors who have offered $250,000 in matching gifts.
Attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday (October 24), considering the constitutionality of the minister’s housing allowance.
Consultations with doctors through telemedicine will be available at no out-of-pocket charge for the majority of participants in GuideStone’s health plans in 2019.
Chief Strategic Investment Officer David S. Spika said that stock market volatility is a very common and normal occurrence.
Representatives of GuideStone® honored First Baptist Church of Norco, Louisiana, as it became the first property and casualty insurance customer served by the Southern Baptist entity in the state of Louisiana.
Reflecting on the number of days GuideStone® has served hundreds of thousands of participants, GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins noted that August 20, 2018 — the first day at GuideStone’s new home — was a momentous one.
GuideStone Financial Resources® trustees gathered July 30–31 in regular session to hear reports from the Guidestone® executive leadership team and staff about the ministry’s key lines of business.
Growing and going has been part of the GuideStone® story now for 100 years. The growth has been focused to provide the products and services that churches and ministries need.
Talk of tariffs and a trade dispute have added volatility to the financial markets due to the uncertainty it creates but will likely have little impact on long-term investors.
The GuideStone® ministry is searching for retired Southern Baptist ministers, workers and their widows who need financial assistance.
When the South Gate Baptist Church Girls in Action (GA) group decided to focus on Mission:Dignity® for their Christmas in August project, most of the members had never heard of the ministry that helps retired SBC ministers, workers, and their wives or widows.
No matter how little they might have appeared to have, Roy and Janice Southern understood one undeniable truth: You can’t outgive the Lord.
Churches and pastors looking for budget-minded health care coverage as well as protection for themselves, their employees and their families have another option to consider coming this summer.
An Oklahoma federal court issued a permanent injunction Thursday (March 15), prohibiting the federal government from enforcing the contraceptive mandate issued by the Obama Administration in 2013.
GuideStone Financial Resources® President O.S. Hawkins told trustees that 2018 — the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ministry — was a year that GuideStone® employees would take a glance to the past but would remain focused on the future of the ministry.
Continued uncertainty in the health care marketplace with the repeal of the individual mandate coming in 2019 and reductions in the number of individuals served by the health care exchanges has some pastors and ministry workers wondering about health care options this year.
As stock markets continue their record-setting ways, it’s important to remember, as Wall Street wisdom reminds: “Trees don’t grow to the sky.”
GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention® will relocate in late summer 2018 to 115,000 square feet of new leased offices at Pinnacle Tower.
Key ministry decision makers, along with human resources professionals and financial officers of churches and ministries, are invited to register for the second annual Employee Benefits Summit, March 26–28 in Dallas.
GuideStone reflects on first century of ministry, looks forward with expectancy to second century of service
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*As of December 31, 2020, GuideStone Funds® has $16.3 billion in assets, which makes GuideStone Funds the nation’s largest faith-based mutual fund family. No other faith-based fund family exceeds GuideStone Funds in asset size.